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“You are free; you are free to go to your temples. You are free to go to your mosques or to any other places of worship in this State of Pakistan. You may belong to any religion, caste or creed鈥攖hat has nothing to do with the business of the state.”
― Muhammad Ali Jinnah

“We aren't human."

"Yes. We. Are." His voice turns fierce. "I don't give a shit what the something-somethingth council of big important farts decreed, or how the geomests classify things, or any of that. That we're not human is just the lie they tell themselves so they don't have to feel bad about how they treat us.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season

“When we choose a mobile network, do we check whether Airtel or Vodafone belong to a particular caste? No, we simply choose the provider based on the best value or service. Then why do we vote for somebody simply because he belongs to the same caste as us?”
― Chetan Bhagat, What Young India Wants

“I was actually permitting myself to experience a sickening sense of disappointment: but rallying my wits, and recollecting my principles, I at once called my sensations to order; and it was wonderful how I got over the temporary blunder--how I cleared up the mistake of supposing Mr. Rochester's movements a matter in which I had any cause to take vital interest. Not that I humbled myself by a slavish notion of inferiority: on the contrary, I just said--
"You have nothing to do with the master of Thornfield further than to receive the salary he gives you for teaching his protegee and to be grateful for such respectful and kind treatment as, if you do your duty, you have a right to expect at his hands. Be sure that is the only tie he seriously acknowledges between you and him, so don't make him the object of your fine feelings, your raptures, agonies, and so forth. He is not of your order: keep to your caste; and be too self-respecting to lavish the love of the whole heart, soul, and strength, where such a gift is not wanted and would be despised.”
― Charlotte Bront毛, Jane Eyre

“Fate determines your caste. You must accept it and live according to the rules."
You can't really believe that!"
I do believe it. That man's misfortune is that he cannot accept his caste, his fate."
I know that the Indians wear their caste as a mark upon their foreheads for all to see. I know that in England, we have our own unacknowledged caste system. A laborer will never hold a seat in Parliament. Neither will a woman. I don't think I've ever questioned such things until this moment.
But what about will and desire? What if someone wants to change things."
Kartik keeps his eyes on the room "You cannot change your caste. You cannot go against fate."
That means there is no hope of a better life. It is a trap."
That is how you see it," he says softly.
What do you mean?"
It can be a relief to follow the path that has been laid oud for you, to know your course and play your part in it."
But how can you be sure that you are following the right course? What if there is no such thing as destiny, only choice?"
Then I do not choose to live without destiny," he says with a slight smile.”
― Libba Bray, Rebel Angels

“A caste system is an artificial construction, a fixed and embedded ranking of human value that sets the presumed supremacy of one group against the presumed inferiority of other groups.”
― Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

“We divided ourselves among caste, creed, culture and countries but what is undivided remains most valuable: a mere smile and the love.”
― Santosh Kalwar

“I want to burn with the spirit of the times. I want all servants of the stage to recognize their lofty destiny. I am disturbed at my comrades' failure to rise above narrow caste interests which are alien to the interests of society at large. Yes, the theatre can play an enormous part in the transformation of the whole of existence.”
― Vsevolod Meyerhold

“She's on the stairs, ma'am, getting her breath,' said the young servant, who had not been long up from the country, where my mother had the excellent habit of getting all her servants. Often she had seen them born. That's the only way to get really good ones. And they're the rarest of luxuries.”
― Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past: Volume I - Swann's Way & Within a Budding Grove

“I could not see how poor people had the means of being kind, and then to learn to speak like them, to adopt their manners, to be uneducated, to grow up like one of the poor women [...]: no, I was not heroic enough to purchase liberty at the price of caste.”
― Charlotte Bront毛, Jane Eyre

“A chair is not a caste.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Mis茅rables

“...Of the Hindu, of whatever caste, it may be said, as of the poet, nascitur non fit. His birth status is unalterable. But with the Sikh the exact reverse is the case. Born of a Sikh father, he is not himself counted of the faith until, as a grown boy, he has been initiated and received the baptism of the pahul at the Akal Bungah or some equally sacred place.”
― Lepel H. Griffin, Ranjit Singh

“Indian poverty is more dehumanizing than any machine; and, more than in any machine civilization, men in India are units, locked up in the straitest obedience by their idea of their dharma. The scientist returning to India sheds the individuality he acquired during his time abroad; he regains the security of his caste identity, and the world is once more simplified. There are minute rules, as comforting as bandages; individual perception and judgement, which once called forth his creativity, are relinquished as burdens, and the man is once more a unit in his herd, his science reduced to a skill. The blight of caste is not only untouchability and the consequent deification in India of filth; the blight, in India that tries to grow, is also the over-all obedience it imposes, its ready-made satisfactions, the diminishing of adventurousness, the pushing away of men of individuality and the possibility of excellence.”
― V.S. Naipaul, India: A Wounded Civilization

“The moment you clasp an infant to your heart, you realize that nobody is born into a caste.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, Gora

“When you were talking about the caste system, I was thinking about how Mexicans still have to come to terms with this in our own culture. We spoke earlier about the castas paintings that were made during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in Mexico. The Spanish, establishing a form of racial apartheid, delineate the fifty-three categories of racial mixtures between Africans, Indians, and the Spanish. And they have names, like tiente en el aire, which means stain in the air; and salta otras, which means jump back; or mulatto, a word that comes from mula, the unnatural mating between the horse and the donkey. 鈥淪ambo鈥� is now a racial epithet in the US, but it was first used as one of the fifty-three racial categories in the castas paintings.”
― Amalia Mesa-Bains, Homegrown: Engaged Cultural Criticism

“Yes, we have to seek redemption! Redemption from the divisive politics based on caste and religion, redemption from the corruption which is eating our lives like termites, redemption from misery of poverty, redemption from the sins of our venal politicians. We need good governance and accountability. An individual has to fight for the things he rightfully deserves. People do not need crutches of any kind if the basic conditions of nation are conducive to their growth. It鈥檚 ridiculous; people are first deprived of basic amenities, denied their dues and then offered carrots to benefit the vote bank politics.”
― Madhu Vajpayee, Seeking Redemption

“I have discovered that some groups and castes are offered little to no opportunity to work in the public sector in Nepal.”
― Santosh Kalwar, Why Nepal Fails

“Nepal is confronted with many societal issues, including the caste system, child labor, illiteracy, gender inequality, superstitions, religious disputes, and a slew of other issues.”
― Santosh Kalwar, Why Nepal Fails

“It was Gandhi who gave the Congress Party a mass base, a rural base. Four out of five Indians live in villages; and the Congress remains the only party in India (except for certain regional parties) which has a rural organization; it cannot lose. The opposition parties, even a revivalist Hindu party like the Jan Sangh, the National Party, are city parties. In the villages, the Congress is still Gandhi's party; and the village tyrannies that have been established through nearly thirty years of unbroken Congress rule cannot now be easily removed. In the countryside, the men to watch for are the men in white Gandhian homespun. They are the men of power, the politicians; their authority, rooted in antique reverences of caste and clan, has been emboldened by Independence and democracy.”
― V.S. Naipaul, India: A Wounded Civilization

“To make democracy work, Jayaprakash Narayan suggests, to undo tyranny, it is only necessary for India to return truly to itself. The Ramraj that Gandhi offered is no longer simply Independence, India without the British; it is people's government, the reestablishment of the ancient Indian village republic, a turning away from the secretariats of Delhi and the state capitals. But this is saying nothing; this is to leave India where it is. What looks like a political programme is only clamour and religious excitation. People's government and the idea of the ancient village republic (which may be a fanciful idea, a nationalist myth surviving from the days of the Independence struggle) are not the same thing. Old India has its special cruelties; not all the people are people.”
― V.S. Naipaul, India: A Wounded Civilization

“A passionate Marxist journalist - waiting for the revolution, rejecting all 'palliatives' - told me that the 'workers' of India had to be politicized; they had to be told that it was the 'system' that oppressed them. After nearly thirty years of power, the Congress has, understandably, become the system. But where does the system begin and end? Does it take in religion, the security of caste and clan, Indian ways of perceiving, karma, the antique serfdom? But no Indian cares to take political self-examination that far. No Indian can take himself to the stage where he might perceive that the faults lie within the civilization itself, that the failure and the cruelties of India might implicate all Indians. Even the Marxists, dreaming of a revolution occurring like magic on a particular day, of tyranny swept away, of 'the people' then engaging in the pleasures of 'folk' activities - the Marxist journalist's word: the folk miraculously whole after the millennia of oppression - even the Marxist's vision of the future is not of a country undone and remade but of an India essentially returned to itself, purified: a vision of Ramraj.”
― V.S. Naipaul, India: A Wounded Civilization

“Priests were born into the Brahmin caste, and I had met enough Brahmins in my life to know that not all of them were priests, or even had a shred of spirituality in them. Usually they were arrogant and corrupt, frankly quite despicable people to know.”
― Mimi Mondal, His Footsteps, Through Darkness and Light

“I'll be honest - I had never heard anything like that. Not that I ever understood the elaborate social intricacies of the upper classes, but I always knew that I did not trust them, and her story just seemed to confirm my mistrust.”
― Mimi Mondal, His Footsteps, Through Darkness and Light

“Lower castes and other oppressed groups have less access to basic amenities and education and fewer prospects for social progress than their upper-caste counterparts.”
― Santosh Kalwar, Why Nepal Fails

“The human story is filled with pain and tragedy, but among the horrors that we have perpetrated on one another the persecution and attempted termination of the Jewish people, the brutal enslavement of Africans, and the destruction of native American civilizations in many respects are unparalleled.”
― Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

“It is harder to dehumanize a single individual that you have gotten the chance to know. Which is why people and groups who seek power and division do not bother with dehumanizing and individual. Better to attach a stigma a taint of pollution to an entire group.”
― Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

“Our self is not constructed by claiming one side of a duality. Rather we are fashioned as drops of water, of the same abundant substance as the ocean. We have within our small selves all the properties, all the constitutive molecules that make up the limitless whole. We are the many, held in the one. We are fractal images of the ultimate reality.

If we embraced this wholeness within ourselves, perhaps we would be less anxious as men about the feminine within, less anxious as heterosexuals about our (perhaps unexplored) capacity to love someone of the same sex, less anxious as Hindus about the evidence of Muslim culture in our lives, less anxious as 鈥榰pper castes鈥� about the breaching of our spaces by the 鈥渓ower鈥�, and generally speaking less anxious as 鈥渦s鈥� about the lurking presence of 鈥渢hem鈥� in us. We could relax into our porosity. We would no longer need to feel small, threatened and in constant need of securing our borders, rallying our defences against being overwhelmed by the 鈥淥ther鈥�.”
― Shabnam Virmani, Burn Down Your House: Provocations From Kabir

“袩械褉褕芯褞 邪褎褉芯邪屑械褉懈泻邪薪泻芯褞, 褟泻褨泄 锌褉懈褋褍写懈谢懈 锌褉械屑褨褞 袗屑械褉懈泻邪薪褋褜泻芯褩 泻褨薪芯邪泻邪写械屑褨褩, 褋褌邪谢邪 袚械褌褌褨 袦邪泻写械薪褨褦谢. 袙芯薪邪 芯褌褉懈屑邪谢邪 褑褞 胁懈褋芯泻褍 胁懈薪邪谐芯褉芯写褍 蟹邪 褉芯谢褜 袦邪屑屑褨 (写斜邪泄谢懈胁芯褩, 芯谐褉褟写薪芯褩 泄 邪褋械泻褋褍邪谢褜薪芯褩 锌褉芯褌懈谢械卸薪芯褋褌褨 小泻邪褉谢械褌褌 袨始啸邪褉邪, 褟泻邪 斜褍谢邪 褨写械邪谢芯屑 卸褨薪泻懈) 褍 褎褨谢褜屑褨 1939 褉芯泻褍 芦袙褨写薪械褋械薪褨 胁褨褌褉芯屑禄. 袦邪屑屑褨, 斜褨谢褜褕 胁褨写写邪薪邪 斜褨谢褨泄 褉芯写懈薪褨, 薪褨卸 胁谢邪褋薪褨泄, 斜褍谢邪 谐芯褌芯胁邪 胁褋褌褍锌懈褌懈 胁 斜褨泄 褨蟹 褔芯褉薪芯褕泻褨褉懈屑懈 褋芯谢写邪褌邪屑懈, 褖芯斜 蟹邪褏懈褋褌懈褌懈 褋胁芯褩褏 斜褨谢懈褏 锌芯薪械胁芯谢褞胁邪褔褨胁. 笑械泄 芯斜褉邪蟹 褋褌邪胁 蟹褉褍褔薪芯褞 锌褨写锌芯褉芯褞 写谢褟 蟹芯斜褉邪卸械薪薪褟 褉邪斜褋褌胁邪 胁 褏褍写芯卸薪褨褏 褎褨谢褜屑邪褏, 芯写薪邪泻 褑械 斜褍谢邪 胁懈谐邪写泻邪 泻邪褋褌芯胁芯褩 褋懈褋褌械屑懈, 褖芯 褋褍锌械褉械褔懈谢邪 褨褋褌芯褉懈褔薪懈屑 褎邪泻褌邪屑. 袙 械锌芯褏褍 褉邪斜褋褌胁邪 斜褨谢褜褕褨褋褌褜 褔芯褉薪芯褕泻褨褉懈褏 卸褨薪芯泻 斜褍谢懈 褏褍写芯褉谢褟胁懈屑懈, 薪邪胁褨褌褜 胁懈褋薪邪卸械薪懈屑懈 褔械褉械蟹 褋泻褍锌械 褏邪褉褔褍胁邪薪薪褟, 褟泻懈屑 褩褏 蟹邪斜械蟹锌械褔褍胁邪谢懈. 袛芯 褌芯谐芯 卸 屑邪谢芯 褏褌芯 蟹 褑懈褏 卸褨薪芯泻 锌褉邪褑褞胁邪胁 褍 斜褍写懈薪泻邪褏, 芯褋泻褨谢褜泻懈 褩褏 胁胁邪卸邪谢懈 褑褨薪薪褨褕懈屑懈 薪邪 锌芯谢褨.”
― 袉蟹邪斜械谢褜 袙褨谢泻械褉褋芯薪, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

“袝薪写芯谐邪屑褨褟 蟹屑褨褑薪褞褦 屑械卸褨 泻邪褋褌懈, 蟹邪斜芯褉芯薪褟褞褔懈 褕谢褞斜懈 锌芯蟹邪 褋胁芯褦褞 谐褉褍锌芯褞 褔懈 褋褌邪褌械胁褨 褋褌芯褋褍薪泻懈 邪斜芯 薪邪胁褨褌褜 薪邪泄屑械薪褕褨 芯蟹薪邪泻懈 褉芯屑邪薪褌懈褔薪芯谐芯 褨薪褌械褉械褋褍 写芯 褔谢械薪褨胁 褨薪褕懈褏 泻邪褋褌. 袙芯薪邪 褋褌胁芯褉褞褦 蟹邪褏懈褋薪懈泄 械泻褉邪薪 屑褨卸 泻邪褋褌邪屑懈 泄 褋褌邪褦 谐芯谢芯胁薪懈屑 蟹邪褋芯斜芯屑 褍褌褉懈屑邪薪薪褟 褉械褋褍褉褋褨胁 褌邪 褋锌芯褉褨写薪械薪芯褋褌褨 胁 屑械卸邪褏 泻芯卸薪芯谐芯 褉褨胁薪褟 泻邪褋褌芯胁芯褩 褋懈褋褌械屑懈. 袟邪胁写褟泻懈 褍褋褍薪械薪薪褞 蟹邪泻芯薪薪懈褏 褉芯写懈薪薪懈褏 蟹胁始褟蟹泻褨胁 屑褨卸 泻邪褋褌邪屑懈 械薪写芯谐邪屑褨褟 锌芯蟹斜邪胁谢褟褦 谢褞写械泄 蟹写邪褌薪芯褋褌褨 写芯 械屑锌邪褌褨褩 褔懈 锌芯褔褍褌褌褟 褋锌褨谢褜薪芯褩 写芯谢褨. 袩褨写 胁锌谢懈胁芯屑 械薪写芯谐邪屑褨褩 褔谢械薪懈 锌邪薪褨胁薪芯褩 泻邪褋褌懈 褉褨写泻芯 胁懈褟胁谢褟褞褌褜 芯褋芯斜懈褋褌懈泄 褨薪褌械褉械褋 写芯 褖邪褋褌褟, 褋邪屑芯褉械邪谢褨蟹邪褑褨褩 泄 写芯斜褉芯斜褍褌褍 褌懈褏, 泻芯谐芯 胁胁邪卸邪褞褌褜 薪懈卸褔懈屑懈 蟹邪 褋械斜械, 胁褌褉邪褔邪褞褔懈 蟹写邪褌薪褨褋褌褜 芯褌芯褌芯卸薪褞胁邪褌懈 褋械斜械 蟹 褑懈屑懈 谢褞写褜屑懈 褌邪 褩褏薪褜芯褞 写芯谢械褞. 袩芯 褋褍褌褨, 械薪写芯谐邪屑褨褟 锌芯褋懈谢褞褦 褋褏懈谢褜薪褨褋褌褜 褔谢械薪褨胁 锌邪薪褨胁薪芯褩 泻邪褋褌懈 胁胁邪卸邪褌懈 薪懈卸褔懈褏 蟹邪 褋械斜械 薪械 谢懈褕械 褔懈屑芯褋褜 屑械薪褕懈屑 蟹邪 谢褞写械泄, 邪 泄 胁芯褉芯谐邪屑懈, 褔褍卸懈薪褑褟屑懈 褌邪 蟹邪谐褉芯蟹芯褞, 泻芯褌褉褍 褋谢褨写 褌褉懈屑邪褌懈 锌褨写 泻芯薪褌褉芯谢械屑 蟹邪 斜褍写褜-褟泻褍 褑褨薪褍.”
― 袉蟹邪斜械谢褜 袙褨谢泻械褉褋芯薪, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

“He [Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, 1795], coined the term Caucasian on the basis of a favorite skull of his that had come into his possession from the Caucasus Mountains of Russia. To him, the skull was the most beautiful of all that he owned. So he gave the group to which he belonged, the Europeans, the same name as the region that had produced it. That is how people now identified as white got the scientific-sounding yet random name Caucasian.”
― Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents